Files of work in progress SportSketch.com

2009 ended with these three pieces from my dear friends in New Hampshire. I have enjoyed doing many of these
wonderful sketches throughout the year and hope there will be more in the future...

I use a number of art medias to create the sketches. I may start by removing the background and creating an outline or trace with
a WACOM tablet in PhotoShop. Once I have the base subject I bring the image to the art table. Here you see the large flat box full of soft pastels,
the box tucked under the soft pastels holds pastel pencils, The dark wood box has three layers of Derwent colored pencils,
the colorful pencils to the right are polychromos pencils (120) which have a different feel and color selection than the Derwents.
I use the the upright folder with inset squares for the red insets which allow me to see the value when working with the color
photographs that are sent in. I also use charcoal, graphite, mechanical pencils and blenders when working black and white pieces....

I guess I am pointing this out to clarify that my sketches are not just blasted through PhotoShop with a filter or two. If your
sketch has charcoal and/or pastels, it will come sandwiched between glassine sheets to protect the sketched surface. I am
able to keep my price down by utilizing Photoshop and the WACOM tablet to begin the work process.

We offer blank canvas pastels and pastel sketches. These start at $250.00 for an 11x14.
See examples here

Like we say, "The photograph is just the beginning of the art!"

A client sent some old time baseball players to have reproduced as sketches. He sent 8x10 files for 8x10 sketches... Two of the works are
Back & White which I use a 2B and 4B pencil along with charcoal for those rich blacks and a white pastel for the lettering and highlights.
The color sketch was finished with Derwent Professional Color Pencils.
3/31/2009


These two B&W sketches are just about completed. I am about to enhance them with the charcoal.	These gentlemen are about 3/4 completed. I have to give them a bit more color to get that red to really pop... Baseball has been good to these fellas!

I designed a web site for a friend in Comox BC, www.silverfoxmarinecharters.com last year and after looking
through all the happy people with their fish and reading about their wonderful experiences - I thought a sketch
to commemorate the event was a perfect way to remember their wonderful trip... this is an example sketch, 16x20.
Right now it is orphaned and looking for a home... This is a BIG salmon!
Nov. 27th, 2008

The player on the left I sketched in 2005 for a commissioned work via his high school. I believe his
brother was a freshmen at the time... I am not sure if the parents had always planned on getting a
matching sketch of the younger boy or if #34 had hoped to have me sketch him. Regardless,
I received an email from the parents, who had moved 1000 miles south, but wanted their graduating son
to have his sketch and complete the set. They actually decided to have me re-sketch the original #51
as an 11x14 and complete the new #34 work as an 11x14 as well. That is VERY cool!
Thanks! You made my day! Nov. 17th - 2008

Here is an interesting project... A client sent this great shot of her husband as a scanned large file... I sketched it
with a sepia tone and then pastels penciled to finish the artwork. Nov. 9, 2008 - 16x20.

June 25th, 2008
Commissioned work for World Class golfer Anthony Kim. Anthony won the Wachovia 2008 Championships this year!

5/15/08
Composite with three in one photograph. 16x20 with charge for 2 extra subjects.

April 30, 2008
Here is a good example of a multiple image sketch. This is a 16x20 color with four added subjects.
Shipped free of charge priority mail.

After the WACOM work is complete and the 16x20 prints are created on Lexjet Archival
heavyweight matte paper, the prints go through a hands on enhancement with colored
pencils, charcoal, pastel pencils or graphite pencil.

We are able to keep our cost to our clients down by completing some of the artwork
via the WACOM stylus and tablet. Prints are rendered with our new IPF5100 Canon
Image Prograf printer.

My Creation Area -
Dugualla Bay and Mt. Baker

Work Table

Currently in Progress

The 16x20 Color Sketch